Specter of Cuban bioweapons rises again

This article says Roberto Ortego, former Cuban Army colonel and chief of Cuba’s military medical services from 1984-1994, claims there is a secret underground bioweapons lab near Havana. Cuban biological agents were created as a deterrent and blackmail tool against the U.S., he claims.
“They can develop viruses and bacteria and dangerous sicknesses that are currently [...]

Do I dare post about this again?

Apparently I do, but I sure hope I don’t end up regretting it. A while back I wrote about gangstalking, a phenomenon I had just heard about. I thought it was probably an obscure, little-known paranoid tendency among a small group of people. Was that ever wrong. I’m pretty sure [...]

Gardasil lobbying, vaccination requirements are creepy

So Merck’s been making the rounds and spreading a bit of financial goodwill in support of lawmakers who might favor laws forcing citizens to present their offspring for inoculation with its new HPV vaccine. Nothing like a guaranteed return on investment all the way until the patent runs out. But Merck says it’ll [...]

Why no CBRN attacks?

In his article for the Jamestown Foundation, Chris Quillen posits Three Explanations for al-Qaeda’s Lack of a CBRN Attack.
It’s certainly not for lack of trying, evidenced clearly by al Qaeda’s “R&D program” in Afghanistan, and its repeated religious justifications for the use of WMD. If al Qaeda is hellbent on killing us all with [...]

Now that’s propaganda!

Layin’ it on thick, this site features a video (for European consumption, I guess) extolling the glorious virtues of America.

h/t Defense Tech, where this video stirred up plenty of nastiness in the comments. I’m just posting it as interesting propaganda. If you want to fight about it, please go join [...]

No, it’s not WMD

I just noticed this post over at the Jawa Report. The poster is quite upset about the glaring lack of the word “terrorist” among the media’s labels for the bad guys in Iraq. But I’m not posting about that here. I’m posting about the use of the term WMD in the post’s [...]

NYTimes hits scare button

Editor & Publisher is keeping an eye on the hype levels over today’s media reports concerning chlorine in Iraq.  By overdramatizing, occasionally fabricating in lieu of facts, and quoting mysterious sources of unknown veracity, the MSM gleefully gives the bad guys exactly what they want.  But it’s been often said that terrorism and the media [...]

U.S. on forced hunger strike until food safe to eat

Peanut butter, cantaloupes, baby food, spinach, you name it. Here’s another one: Oscar Mayer chicken breast strips tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, those naughty little beasties.
The six-ounce packages are labeled “OSCAR MAYER/LOUIS RICH CHICKEN BREAST STRIPS WITH RIB MEAT, GRILLED, FULLY COOKED — READY TO EAT.” Each package has the number “P-19676″ inside [...]